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She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

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If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice wit...more

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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There a...more

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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it—can understand the gri...more

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No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

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You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting ...more